 Thanks, Angela. Thanks, Angela. Hi, everyone. It's nice to see you all here today. My name is Laura Combs. I'm the client services manager at JBS here in San Francisco. I'll be sharing my screen in just a second, but very briefly, JBS stands for Jewish vocational services. However, I want to highlight we serve everyone, regardless of religious or any sort of other affiliations. That's sometimes a confusing thing. So I like to just start off with that for people. I'm going to go ahead and share my screen. Now, there will be time at the end if you have questions, but please feel free to also place your questions in the chat. And we'll start with those questions after the presentation and then we'll move to time for people to ask questions verbally. Let me just pull my. So one of the main things that JBS does is we work to build in demand job skills and make connections for people within the Bay Area to find employment. We work with adults of all ages and we also serve high schoolers through one of our program or through our programs that run in the San Francisco Unified School District. As we all know, the pandemic has been incredibly stressful for many people, both many people losing employment, having a difficult time finding employment and also many people choosing to change and move to new jobs. This is something that JBS has a lot of experience with. We've been working with people for almost 50 years and 80,000 people to help them build in demand skills and find work. We have actually gone through five recessions in the almost 50 years that we've been working and we've continued to adapt to changing economies and skills trainings, including when the pandemic hit early last year. We pivoted everything to be virtual. So we're very quick to adapt when things change and when things need to be adjusted. We have an entire department that focuses on strategy of job searching to make sure that we're providing the right sorts of supports and the right sorts of programs for our interested clients. An important note to even just underline one of the programs that Angela mentioned, the LinkedIn program, we do find that over 50% of jobs come from either personal or professional networks. So our core focus at JBS is people working together in a cohort. All of our programs run on a cohort, cohortized basis. So what that means is you're with the same group of people throughout the time that you're in the program with the hope that you build connections with them and stay connected with them, even after the program ends. This is for your own, you know, personal like to maybe have some friends who have been through the same experience, but also because we know this that over 50% come from personal or professional networks. So I really want to also underline LinkedIn as an important tool that we utilize heavily at JBS. We make sure that people know how to use. And I really recommend that you check out the workshop that the library is going to be doing as well. So basically, how do we do what we do, we make sure that clients are at the center of all that we do, which includes create understanding which new specific skills trainings we should have what on the job training opportunities we should offer who we connect with when it comes to new employers, what that ongoing job search support and mentorship can look like. And also, we do extensive labor market analysis to see that the training programs that we're offering are things that are actually going to be in demand, not just right now, but five years, but even 10 years from now. So we ensure that our clients have a career path that will sustain them well outside of the time that they're working with us. The job search process, as I'm sure many of you know is definitely difficult. Some of the things we hear people saying is, they feel like their resume isn't going anywhere. That entry level jobs require you to have experience. So are they actually entry level. And that a lot of jobs, especially during the pandemic have been requiring new tech skills that people may not have. So, these questions and more are all things that we address within our programs to better support clients. This could be in our short term programs are one time programs and even our long term programs. We can focus on all of these in some way. And so I'll explain that a little bit when I talk more about our programs. So if you have been off the job market for quite some time, or you're not able to commit to a full time program. We do offer standalone job search workshops. So these workshops last oftentimes two or two and a half hours. They happen every week. They happen every week for the same program. So there's a two week cadence. You can attend as many or as little as you like. We have, I believe, five different program or five different workshops, including a resume revamp workshop that express explains how you can get your resume revamped and what things people are looking for. And interviewing during zoom interviewing on zoom this way is new and has been new for many people in the last year and a half. We created a workshop specifically around how to present yourself through zoom. We also offer LinkedIn workshops. And we also offer a workshop called how to identify your target job. So if you're kind of influx, you're not totally sure where you want to go next. Then we do offer a workshop that supports you and figuring out what your next step could be. The last workshop I want to highlight is chat with a career coach, which is listed on here. So this is a little bit different than our other workshops and that there's not a PowerPoint. It's actually an opportunity for you and a small group of other people to ask direct questions to our career coach, which normally for a one on one session with us a little over $100. So this gives you an opportunity to actually ask those questions to a professional who's been in the, you know, been in the career coaching world for 35 or 40 years and get an answer for free with a small group of people around you as well. I'll navigate to the website and show you all where you can sign up for this, but you will also have access to the slide deck and you can click on the links directly from the slide deck. Next, if you know what your job is that you really want to do, and you have the skills to do that job, but you are struggling with finding like getting your foot in the door, or you need a little bit more fine tuning and support on your resume your interviewing skills, then the next program that I would really recommend is our job search accelerator program. So this program is a two week long program that focuses specifically on job search skills. So things such as resume interviewing networking cover letters and like elevator pitches. It's a really fantastic program. We offer it either every month or every other month. We offer pretty consistently, and we continue to offer support through a cohort Slack channel. So if you're not familiar with Slack you will learn how to use it in this program as a tool that many workplaces are utilizing. So in Slack you create continue to create the connections within your cohort, as well as previous cohorts of job search accelerator, and you can share information you can share tips, and you can also share job leads and successes, once you get a job. The next pieces that will highlight are the three types of pathways that we offer for people who are looking to build a new skill. These programs offer this training. Some of them also offer on the job paid experience, and they all also offer ongoing job search support. We have programs in the healthcare field, the technology field, and also the skills trades, the utilities field. We'll talk about all those in just just a minute. So some of our healthcare training programs include there are a few extras but the main ones that we offer are the medical administrative assistant program. So this is a classroom training with a paid internship at the end. This is a partnership with oftentimes UCSF or Kaiser. This is the medical assistant certification so this is a little bit more hands on working directly with patients. This also includes the classroom training and a paid internship. This is also a partnership either with UCSF or Kaiser. And lastly we have our dental assistant training program, similar in that it has a classroom training and a paid internship at the end. The difference here is that our dental assistant program is offered all throughout the Bay Area so we offer it in San Francisco, we offer it in Contra Costa County and we also offer it in Alameda County, which means that your internship placement is in one of those locations which may be more convenient for you if you aren't living in San Francisco, which is contrast to the other two programs of which are located here in San Francisco. Note that each program, healthcare, technology, or otherwise all have their own eligibility requirements, which means the best thing to do is to check out the website to see what eligibility requirements are for that program. Again, when I show the website I'll show where you can find the information for the eligibility requirements but I do want to note that the best thing that you can do is make sure to check out the website before completing your application and read it pretty extensively before completing your application just to make sure that you are eligible and that it's a program you have the time to dedicate to. Another quick note here on our healthcare programs. We continue to work virtually 90% of the time our healthcare programs do have an in person component, namely the internships, but some of the training as well, depending on what needs to be in person versus what can happen virtually. So that is an important thing to note in terms of both commute as well as safety as we continue to move forward within the COVID-19 pandemic. Next, we'll talk about our technology programs. So we do offer a data analytics training program. This is in partnership with a data company called springboard. We offer a Salesforce administrative program. So Salesforce is an online database in which we offer and we offer training and how to become a Salesforce administrator, which is kind of the first step for many other skills within Salesforce. And we also offer a bookkeeping certification program. The bookkeeping offers two different programs. One is the bookkeeping fundamentals. So that's if you've never done bookkeeping before and you're looking to learn quick books and kind of really get your, hands wet and understanding bookkeeping. The other program we offer is a refresher program. So that is for people who have already had some amount of experience in quick books or bookkeeping and just haven't done it in some time and are really looking to rebuild those skills. So both of those are offered. Another program that isn't listed on here, but is currently going to begin soon is the IT help desk program. So that is a program specifically in support of people having an entry level technology program or employment, and then with the ability to move forward following IT. And lastly, we'll talk about our skilled trades pre apprenticeship programs. These programs are a little different in that they are partnerships with local community colleges. So these are community colleges, both in the East Bay area. So Contra Costa Alameda County, as well as in San Francisco. These programs work on the same schedule as the colleges, so they oftentimes run fall through summer. There is some amount of flexibility sometimes depending on the program. Some programs run twice a year in that they run fall semester and then again spring semester. And I note that these programs run in the same sort of like calendar as an academic calendar that the community colleges follow. This program also will support people in getting prepped to take any exams that they need to take for the utilities or trades programs. Many of them also offer a an internship at the end, including a job potential job placement with one of our partners in the Bay Area. And I see in the chat thank you Angela for putting in the links directly as well. And so the job search accelerator and all of our pathway programs do have some basic requirements of eligibility in addition to the certain eligibility is for each program. First I want to note all of our programs are free. So all of these programs are provided at no cost to the client. These programs do require that you're 18 years and older to be in our program. You must be eligible to work within the United States. And you also have to have proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or be able to be granted an exception based on medical or religious exemption, which does require documentation from a medical professional or a religious institute. The reason for particularly the vaccination proof is one we do provide as I said some amount of programming in person the health care programs, for instance. And two, we are also beginning to see that many workplaces are requiring vaccination against COVID, even if those are not in person supports or programs and. To confirm that people are going to be eligible for employment post the pandemic by approving this vaccination. So this is a requirement that we have added just over the last couple months, and it will continue to be a requirement for the foreseeable future. As I mentioned, additional eligibility will vary across programs and each program web page will share out the requirement details. As you see there's a question in the chat about how often the, the it help specifically training program begins that's a great question. And for all of these programs, I will say that the most common is that they run about twice a year. Due to staffing some run more often than others, for instance, the bookkeeping and the dental assistant program both run every about two or three months. But the sales force, the it data analytics, medical assistant and medical administrative assistant, all run about every six or so months, depending on contracts and various other things. When I navigate to the website, I will show you how you can sign up to be notified when new applications open. I want to just briefly touch on our high school programs. It is a bit different. But we do, as I mentioned earlier, have a high school bridge program. So this is where JBS partners with San Francisco Unified School District in order to support SFUSD students in getting job search skills, job and on the job training, including work based learning and paid summer internships. So our website does show what our programs are. And if you happen to have a high school student who's interested in a work based learning opportunity, the best thing for them to do is to speak with their counselor at SFUSD. Or they can also reach out to us and we can provide them with the information on who to contact at their specific school. And finally, this is the only program that we offer. So this is our fee based career coaching. Our career coach is fantastic. As I said, he's been for 35 or 40 years, been doing career coaching. He's wonderful. He has oftentimes helped people kind of clarify what it is that they're looking to do, think about if they need to transition their careers, and help them kind of talk through any issues they may be having either at work or while they're in their job search. So this is the only program that costs money to the client at JBS and it is $120 per 55 minute session. So again, if this is not something that you can feasibly afford. I absolutely recommend you sign up for our chat with a career coach workshop that is offered every two weeks, and you can find that information I'll show you where to sign up for it from the website. Yes, so some of our next steps, and I'll show these all on the website as well is to look through our programs that we offer online I'll show you the website soon. You can also sign up for our mailing list and you'll be notified when new training applications open when new workshops open. And finally, if you have any questions you can send us an email at info at jvs.org, it will say with all of us working remotely if you do decide that you would like to call. Please make sure that when you call you leave a voicemail, a detailed voicemail with your name, your phone number, and the reason for your calls so we can make sure we forward it to the correct person. It's very difficult working virtually for us to have someone monitoring the front desk phone at all times so please make sure that you leave voicemails. I'm going to go ahead and stop my share and move on to showing the website. And then we'll take some time for any additional questions that people may have. So this is our website. It's a little zoomed in, but I want to make sure everybody can see it. So when you log into, you go to JBS.org. It will look like this. And you'll see here, the skills training, which Angela linked. So there is this is JBS for me so this is actually a virtual welcome session very similar to what I'm currently doing but if you wanted to rewatch it, in addition to seeing it on the libraries YouTube. This is getting some advice. So there is some information here both for the career coaching but there's also some resources that people have found really helpful. Some information on motivation on ageism and job search questions that people have. And lastly, we also have a job board. So you can actually click this browse jobs, and it will give you access to a job board that people have sent us in things that they would like us to post. So to just show a little bit about the navigation of here at skills training, as that is where all of our programs are. So you see when I hover over it, it does have a drop down, and you can also hover over which department you're interested in, and you can see the different trainings that are offered. So you'll see here there's a lot more trainings and what I highlighted in the slide deck so please make sure that you take a look and check out some of the other programs. Same with technology, and then same with utilities. So I didn't go to the job search workshops and I can show you all how to sign up for those free workshops that don't require an application and then I'll show you how to sign up for one of our programs and to navigate the web page. So again, you go to this drop down and then you click job search workshops right here. And there's some little info here but as you scroll down you'll see the different programs that we are the different workshops that we offer, each with a little quick, what is it. And then to sign up. All you'll do is you'll click this RSVP right here. And it will take you to a registration page that is through event break, and then it will ask for your name and your email, and it will send you the confirmation. You will also receive an email, a couple days ahead of time to remind you, and an email the morning of that provides you with the link as well so please make sure that you check your confirmation email for the link. It will be 99% of the time it's in there. And if it's not, then on the day of the morning of, you will also receive an email that includes that link. And again you can sign up for as many of these as you'd like, you can sign up for just one, and you're more than welcome to go to another, another one as well, if you would like. Next, for our training programs. I'll show you kind of what one of the web pages looks like so let's go to the dental assistant program. So here's there's information about what the program looks like what the program is. You'll see that it includes here information about that it's half online versus half in person. There's details on the right hand side about the dates of the program including the times that is expected and where it's expected so this is in for this will be in Berkeley. The eligibility that is required to be in this program so you'll see some of this eligibility is similar to the general eligibility you have to be 18 and older. You need to be eligible to work within the United States, and you need to provide vaccination proof of COVID-19. But you'll also see there's other additional eligibility as well so this is what I mean when I say each program has its own eligibility so to make sure to look at the website to ensure that these are eligible for these programs. Many of our web pages also have a video that explains a little bit more about the program and how to do your application. And if the applications are open it will tell you right here that applications are now open and you just click this button here and it'll take you directly to the application. Most applications do require you to attach your resume as well. Like your resume can be in not great shape and that's okay. We do just require resume as part of our application process for most programs. So this is what it looks like if a program is accepting applications. If a program is not accepting applications. Then it will still show you the last information from the program eligibility, but it will tell you in this block again that applications are now closed. And invite you to sign up for our email list to be notified when new programs open. So if you click this yellow button again let's learn more button. It will take you to our newsletter sign up and you can sign up here. You can click all of these or you can leave this blank or you can click just the one sort of focus that you're looking for. But this will make sure that you're on our mailing list and you'll be notified when new applications open for programs. And then also if you're interested you can scroll down and you can oftentimes see who many of our instructors are for that program. And lastly let me show you all the job board that we have so up here if you press browse jobs. Then you'll see a couple of the programs that are or a couple of the jobs are us. But also many are other places as well so again these are some of our partners who have asked that they have the ability to post on our job board. You can also check out our job board you don't need to be a client to do this. Anybody is welcome to check out the job board that we have. That is all of the information that I have that I was going to share so I'm going to go ahead and stop my share and move into questions. So I do see that there is one question in the chat. What works with the unemployed. How can I see if one of the programs qualifies for training with EDD. That is a fantastic question to do that you do need to see if the program qualifies with the California training benefit. I don't necessarily have the time to go through and show you that right now. But I will say that if you Google California training benefit through EDD you should be able to see kind of how where you can find if a program is eligible. Many of our programs are eligible for the California training benefit through the through EDD, but not all. So I definitely recommend there's a database that they use like a search base that they use. And from there you can search like JVS and it'll show up. Unfortunately, I just don't have that handy right now but many of our programs do qualify for it. Other questions. Feel free to unmute if you guys have any questions I have allowed you guys to unmute now. Yeah, I'd like to ask you a brief question Laura. If you wanted chat you have a workshop where a career coach is available as well so if you can't afford the hundred dollars then that's an option as well. Yes, workshop. Okay. Exactly and that's a small group so that wouldn't be one on one, but it's oftentimes a group of like six to eight people. And so you kind of ask your question within the group, but many people find that the questions are similar ones to that they have. For instance, regarding not getting callbacks or confidence in job searching, things of that nature, oftentimes come up within the group as well. So there's a range of ages that you that you deal with as well I know that David Robbins actually had a great workshop then he was saying that there was a woman who was 72 who just got a great job. And I thought it was great she had a learner's mentality you know a learner's mind. I just yeah, I've been working a long time. So, great. Yeah, yeah we work with people of all, all adults. We have some people in our programs who are 1819 and you have others in our program who have been in the workforce for many, many years. Thank you Laura, of course. Seems like a very great group. Thank you. Any other questions. Does anyone have any more questions you like to ask. Can we see this presentation again as well. Yes, this presentation is recorded so I'll be sending it out with the survey later today. Great. Yes, and I'll also be sharing the slide deck with Angela, and she can share it with you all as well. If no one has any other questions we can end the presentation early and I'll return the time back to you guys. Thank you Laura for coming by and introducing your fantastic organization with all these programs are very beneficial for job seekers. And I also like to thank everyone for joining us. I hope you found this presentation informative and helpful to you. Thank you for sending the PowerPoint slides and the recording out later today, along with a survey. And I would really appreciate it if you guys take the time out of your day to fill out the survey, so that we can continue to improve, improve our programs. With that, I'd like to thank everyone and goodbye. Thank you everyone. Have a great day. Thank you.